Assignment #4: Chapters 1-6 Put a new line between assignments #3 and #4.
Put your answer ABOVE the previous assignment.
Copy this assignment to your page.
Add the date above this assignment.
Start a plot line. Identify the setting first.
Add two or three key events from each chapter to reflect the rising action.
Identify each chapter and put the two or three events as bullet points under the chapter number.
For example: Setting
Time and Place Chapter 1
Two or three bulleted phrases explaining your events.
Chapter 2
Two or three bulleted phrases explaining your events.
Setting~
This book takes place in England around 1939, when the book itself was published. Most of the story takes place on Indian Island.
Chapter 1~ Events~
The reader meets these characters: Emily Brent, Vera Claythorne, Dr. Armstrong, Anthony Marston, Justice Wargrave, Philip Lombard, General Macarthur, and Mr. Blore.
All of the characters have been invited or sent to Indian Island.
Chapter 2~ Events~
The characters met in the first chapter meet each other on a boat to Indian Island.
At Indian Island, each of the guests has a poem on the wall of his or her room about 10 little Indians who one by one are killed off.
Each character has some sort of mystery to him or her.
The reader meets two more characters: Mrs. and Mr. Rogers who are the servants for the household.
Nobody knows the owner of the house, the Owens.
Chapter 3~ Events~
Everyone has dinner together. In the middle of the table there are 10 Indian figurines to represent the 10 Indians from the poem in the second chapter.
A voice comes up on the gramaphone accusing each person of a murder. Mrs. Rogers faints and is given some medication and a drink. Mr. Rogers says that he was ordered to put the cd on the gramaphone by Mr. Owen but had no idea what it was.
Both the Owens' initials are U.N.Owen, or unknown. The group believes that they have been summoned to Indian Island by a dangerous homicidal lunatic.
Chapter 4~ Events~
Everyone explains why they came and their accusation (most state that it was untrue, but Lombard says that his is true, and Emily Brent doesn't defend herself or say that she is guilty). Many of them know that they actually were guilty.
Anthony takes a drink of beer and chokes
Chapter 5~ Events~
Dr. Armstrong declares that Anthony is dead. Someone put Potassiium Cyanide in his glass, killing him instantaneously. The group figures that it had to have been suicide.
Mr. Rogers sees that there are only nine Indian figures on the table now.
In bed, many people are thinking over the murder they were accused of.
Vera notices that in the first stanza of the Indian poem, the Indian choked just like Anthony did.
Chapter 6~ Events~
Mrs. Rogers won't wake up. Dr. Armstrong determines that she is dead.
Everyone now wants to get off the island, but the motorboat doesn't come.
Mr. Rogers sees that there are now only eight Indians figurines on the table now.
Chapter 7~ Events~
Emily Brent explains to Vera that the person she was accused of murdering, Beatrice Taylor, was actually her maid. She seemed like a nice girl, but wasn't. She became pregnant, and Emily fired her. Because of this, Beatrice killed herself.
Lombard, Armstrong, and Blore decide to explore the island to try to find the murderer.
Chapter 8~ Events~
Everyone is trying to figure out how Tony and Mrs. Rogers died, by either murder or suicide.
General Macarthur is looking dazedly off into the distance and muttering about true peace. He admits to Vera that he purposely sent his wife's lover Arthur Richmond to his death at the front of a battle.
Lombard, Armstrong, and Blore explore the island and find no one. Blore and Armstrong are suspicious because Lombard brought a revolver with him.
Lombard, Armstrong, and Blore explore every nook and cranny of the house, and they find nobody there either.
Chapter 9~ Events~
Lombard explains that he has the revolver because he was paid by a man named Morris to come to Indian Island and look out for trouble.
Dr. Armstrong goes to fetch General Macarthur for lunch and finds him dead. He figures out that Macarthur was hit in the back of the head with something. Only six Indian figurines are left on the table.
Wargrave comes to the conclusion that Mr. Owens is one of them. Nobody is completely proved to be innocent...it could be any of them.
Chapter 10~ Events~
Everyone is talking among each other about who they think it is.
A red oilskin curtain from the bathroom goes missing.
When they go to bed, everyone locks his or her door. Mr. Rogers locks the pantry so nobody can mess with the Indians.
Chapter 11~ Events~
Mr. Rogers is missing. Vera notices that there are only six Indian figurines on the table.
Everyone finds him chopping up wood in the yard with a gash in the back of his head.
Vera starts going hysterical. She sees that there are bees in the yard, and that Mr. Rogers died like the poem said he would. She thinks next is the bees.
Chapter 12~ Events~
Emily Brent stays in the kitchen after dinner.
Everyone finds her later still in the kitchen, dead. She was injected with a syringe, and outside there is a buzzing bee to go along with the nursery rhyme.
Dr. Armstrong said he came with a syringe, but when they go upstairs to look in his suitcase, it isn't there.
Everyone strips down and is searched for anything that can be used to kill somebody. All the medication and weapons are locked in a silver chest locked in the pantry. Lombard and Blore each have 1 key.
Chapter 13~ Events~
When Vera goes up into her bedroom, she smells the sea and something cold and clammy touches her. She screams, and everyone comes rushing up. It's seaweed.
They find out that Wargrave is missing.
They find him on a huge chair shot in the head with the red shower curtain as a cape and Emily Brent's missing gray wool as a wig to make him look like a judge to match the rhyme.
Armstrong says he's dead.
Chapter 14~ Events~
Blore points out that the murderer had it planned so that when Vera saw the seaweed, she would scream, and everyone would rush up to her. No one heard a gunshot, but they couldn't have heard it based on what was happening where they were.
All four of them lock themselves in their rooms and put furniture in front of the door. Lombard finds his revolver back in his drawer.
Vera is thinking about what happened when the little boy she was accused of killing drowned. She had told him that he could swim out to the rocks when she knew he wouldn't be able to make it. After, her lover and the boy's uncle Hugo ignored her.
Blore hears something outside his room. He comes out, and to figure out who it is, he checks all the bedrooms. Armstrong is not there. He and Lombard go out to find Armstrong, who they think is the murdererer. They find he has disappeared.
There are only three Indian figurines on the table.
Chapter 15~ Events~
Vera remembers that in the Indian rhyme, the fourth Indian boy was swallowed by a red herring. She thinks he's not dead and is just trying to lead them off track by shattering the Indian figurine. She also thinks that for the next Indian, they're the zoo.
After Blore goes into the house, Vera and Lombard find him dead, his head crushed with the bear-shaped clock from Vera's mantlepiece.
Vera and Lombard go on a walk. They find Armstrong wedged between two rocks with a purple discolored face, dead.
Chapter 16~ Events~
Vera suggests that she and Lombard take Armstrong back to the house with all the other dead bodies.
While they do this, Vera takes Lombard's revolver. He springs on her, and she shoots him straight through the heart.
Vera goes back into the house and smashes two of the three remaining Indian figurines. The last one she takes with her.
She thinks she hears Hugo calling, so she goes upstairs to her room. Inside she finds a rope and a noose all ready.
Vera drops the Indian figurine. She thinks Hugo wants her to hang her self. She climbs on the chair, adjusts the noose around her neck, and kicks away the chair....
Epilogue~ Events~
Two inspectors are trying to figure out who committed the murders on Indian Island.
Fred Narracott took a boat out after hearing about SOS signals. He found everyone dead.
Isaac Morris had arranged everything for Mr. Owen, but Morris is dead.
The inspectors cannot figure out who the murderer was. None of the people on the island could have, and no one could have left the answer.
Manuscript (a letter in a bottle)~ Events~
The murderer is Wargrave.
All his life he has felt the need to kill. Because of his sense of justice, however, he only likes to see the guilty killed.
One day Wargrave came up with the idea to make a great murder mystery no one could solve. He sent guilty people that the law could not touch. With Morris' help, he gathered them and came to the island himself.
To make sure that nobody would suspect him, he got Armstrong into a plan to "kill" himself off. He killed Armstrong later.
Wargrave is going to kill himself in a way that the mystery will remain unsolvable.
Livvie,
What a joy it is to read your WIKI; you have thoughtfully picked out key events, written in complete sentences, and gone above and beyond in responding to the prompts. Great work! Don't forget to link your page to 'AND THEN THERE WERE NONE'. Most people have incorrectly linked to the 'here' page.
Mrs. M
December 3, 2009
Assignment #3: Chapter 3
Put a new line between assignment #2 and #3,
Copy the assignment to your page.
Add the date at the top of your page.
Add your answers to the TOP of your page under the date.
Choose five characters from the story,
Write two sentences telling what you know about him or her. BOLD the character's name and write your sentences about that character right underneath his or her name.
Vera~
Vera was sent to the island because she was hired by Una Nancy Owen for a job as a secretary, although she used to be a teacher. She was responsible for the death of Cyril Hamilton and was sent to a Coroner's Inquest where she was acquitted of all blame.
Ethel Rogers~
Mrs. Rogers and her husband Thomas Rogers brought about the death of Jennifer Brady in 1929. Vera noticed that Mrs.Rogers looked like "...a woman who walked in mortal fear...", but what she was afraid of nobody knows for sure yet.
Dr. Armstrong~
Dr. Armstrong does surgeries for women and tells lies to their husbands about what's wrong with them. He caused the death of Louisa Mary Clees 15 years earlier because he was drunk.
Emily Brent~
Emily Brent is a sixty-five year old women who strongly disapproves of the present generation. Although she is somewhat religious, she caused the death of Beatrice Taylor.
General Macarthur~
Macarthur is an older man who used to be in the Army. In 1917, he sent purposely sent his wife's lover, Arthur Richmond, to his death.
December 2, 2009
Assignment #2~
Put a line between Assignment #1 and Assignment #2.
Read chapter two.
On your student page ABOVE assignment #1, choose one of the following: suspense or foreshadowing.
Find four examples of suspense OR foreshadowing in chapter two.
Write the exact wording from the book - that means type the sentences exactly as they are written.
In a well-written paragraph, explain why these sentences clearly show either suspense or foreshadowing.
Suspense
- Nobody had been exactly cordial to him...Funny the way they eyed each other - as though they knew..... Mr. Blore, p.36
- He thought to himself: "Must go through with it, I suppose," and thereafter dismissed everything from his mind. Warm steaming water - tired limbs - presently a shave - a cocktail - dinner. And after - ? Tony, p.36
- The sea....So peaceful to-day - sometimes cruel....The sea that dragged you down to its depths. Drowned....Found drowned....Drowned at sea....Drowned - drowned - drowned....No, she wouldn't remember....She would not think of it! All of that was over....Vera, p.32
- Mrs.Rogers had a flat monotonous voice. Vera looked at her curiously. What a white cloodless ghost of a woman! Very respectable looking, with her hair dragged back from her face and her black dress. Queer eyes that shifted the whole time from place to place. Vera thought: "She looks frightened of her own shadow." Yes, that was it - frightened! She looked like a woman who walked in mortal fear...A little shiver passed down Vera's back. What on earth was the woman afraid of? Vera and Mrs.Rogers, p.29
Chapter 2 was very suspenseful. There were parts that made me want to keep on reading, and some parts were rather creepy while I was reading late at night. The first example of suspense that I found was the meeting between Vera and Mrs. Rogers. The author wrote, "Mrs.Rogers had a flat monotonous voice. Vera looked at her curiously. What a white cloodless ghost of a woman! Very respectable looking, with her hair dragged back from her face and her black dress. Queer eyes that shifted the whole time from place to place. Vera thought: 'She looks frightened of her own shadow.' Yes, that was it - frightened! She looked like a woman who walked in mortal fear...A little shiver passed down Vera's back. What on earth was the woman afraid of?" This quote showed suspense because it made me shiver along with Vera. I wanted to continue reading to find out what exactly Mrs.Rogers was scared. Three pages later, I found another example of suspense. Vera was looking out the window when some memories came back to her--memories she did not want to remember. "The sea....So peaceful to-day - sometimes cruel....The sea that dragged you down to its depths. Drowned....Found drowned....Drowned at sea....Drowned - drowned - drowned....No, she wouldn't remember....She would not think of it! All of that was over...." I knew that this was another piece to Vera's puzzle. It fit right next to this quote from Chapter 1: "A picture rose clearly before her mind. Cyril's head, bobbing up and down, swimming to the rock...Up and down - up and down....And herself, swimming in easy practised strokes after him - cleaving her way through the water but knowing, only to surely, that she wouldn't be in time....The sea - its deep warm blue - mornings spent lying out on the sands - Hugo - Hugo who had said he loved her...." I'm guessing that Cyril drowned. Still, this did not tell the entire story. I wanted to continue to read and to find out who Hugo was and what put her into the position she was in with Cyril. That's why it was suspenseful. Next, I found yet another example of suspense, this time dealing with Tony. He was sitting in the bathtub, thinking about something...."He thought to himself: 'Must go through with it, I suppose,' and thereafter dismissed everything from his mind. Warm steaming water - tired limbs - presently a shave - a cocktail - dinner. And after - ?" The question mark made me wonder what exactly he would do. The suspensefulness made me want to read even further. The last example of suspense I found was on the same page. Mr. Blore, aka Davis, was also in his room. "Nobody had been exactly cordial to him...Funny the way they eyed each other - as though they knew....." What?????? It showed suspense because it made me want to continue reading to figure out what his dirty little secret was.
November 30, 2009 Assignment #1~
Before reading Chapter One, consider the following~
1. How does a mystery differ from a narrative?
2. How might the title be a clue to the story?
1. A mystery novel can differ from a narrative in several ways. A narrative could have an internal conflict and external conflicts. A mystery's main conflict is usually external, although it could have additional conflicts that are internal or external. Also, a mystery is typically a series of clues with red herrings interspersed between with lots of suspense, often making it hard to put down. A narrative can have a variety of plot lines.
2. The title reminds me of the five little monkey poems we were doing in our poetry unit, the ones where we would have certain numbers of animals from 10 down to 1. Mine was called 10 little children. The last line read: One little child having fun
She got bored, and then there were none
The last part is the title of the book. Another similarity is that And Then There Were None was previously published as Ten Little Indians, similar to that poem. Because of this, I think that the story is going to be about ten Indians who will be killed off one by one.
Good explanation and characteristics of a mystery novel. Can a narrative only be written in first person? Could a mystery novel be written in first person? Conflicts take on many forms; often times a novel - whether it be narrative or mystery - have different kinds of conflicts going on at the same time.
Good comparison between the poem you wrote for class and the Ten Little Indians poem in the novel.
Assignment #4: Chapters 1-6
Put a new line between assignments #3 and #4.
Put your answer ABOVE the previous assignment.
Copy this assignment to your page.
Add the date above this assignment.
Start a plot line. Identify the setting first.
Add two or three key events from each chapter to reflect the rising action.
Identify each chapter and put the two or three events as bullet points under the chapter number.
For example:
Setting
Time and Place
Chapter 1
Two or three bulleted phrases explaining your events.
Chapter 2
Two or three bulleted phrases explaining your events.
Setting~
This book takes place in England around 1939, when the book itself was published. Most of the story takes place on Indian Island.
Chapter 1~
Events~
Chapter 2~
Events~
Chapter 3~
Events~
Chapter 4~
Events~
Chapter 5~
Events~
Chapter 6~
Events~
Chapter 7~
Events~
Chapter 8~
Events~
Chapter 9~
Events~
Chapter 10~
Events~
Chapter 11~
Events~
Chapter 12~
Events~
Chapter 13~
Events~
Chapter 14~
Events~
Chapter 15~
Events~
Chapter 16~
Events~
Epilogue~
Events~
Manuscript (a letter in a bottle)~
Events~
Livvie,
What a joy it is to read your WIKI; you have thoughtfully picked out key events, written in complete sentences, and gone above and beyond in responding to the prompts. Great work! Don't forget to link your page to 'AND THEN THERE WERE NONE'. Most people have incorrectly linked to the 'here' page.
Mrs. M
December 3, 2009
Assignment #3: Chapter 3
Put a new line between assignment #2 and #3,
Copy the assignment to your page.
Add the date at the top of your page.
Add your answers to the TOP of your page under the date.
Choose five characters from the story,
Write two sentences telling what you know about him or her.
BOLD the character's name and write your sentences about that character right underneath his or her name.
Vera~
Vera was sent to the island because she was hired by Una Nancy Owen for a job as a secretary, although she used to be a teacher. She was responsible for the death of Cyril Hamilton and was sent to a Coroner's Inquest where she was acquitted of all blame.
Ethel Rogers~
Mrs. Rogers and her husband Thomas Rogers brought about the death of Jennifer Brady in 1929. Vera noticed that Mrs.Rogers looked like "...a woman who walked in mortal fear...", but what she was afraid of nobody knows for sure yet.
Dr. Armstrong~
Dr. Armstrong does surgeries for women and tells lies to their husbands about what's wrong with them. He caused the death of Louisa Mary Clees 15 years earlier because he was drunk.
Emily Brent~
Emily Brent is a sixty-five year old women who strongly disapproves of the present generation. Although she is somewhat religious, she caused the death of Beatrice Taylor.
General Macarthur~
Macarthur is an older man who used to be in the Army. In 1917, he sent purposely sent his wife's lover, Arthur Richmond, to his death.
December 2, 2009
Assignment #2~
Put a line between Assignment #1 and Assignment #2.
Read chapter two.
On your student page ABOVE assignment #1, choose one of the following: suspense or foreshadowing.
Find four examples of suspense OR foreshadowing in chapter two.
Write the exact wording from the book - that means type the sentences exactly as they are written.
In a well-written paragraph, explain why these sentences clearly show either suspense or foreshadowing.
Suspense
- Nobody had been exactly cordial to him...Funny the way they eyed each other - as though they knew..... Mr. Blore, p.36
- He thought to himself: "Must go through with it, I suppose," and thereafter dismissed everything from his mind. Warm steaming water - tired limbs - presently a shave - a cocktail - dinner. And after - ? Tony, p.36
- The sea....So peaceful to-day - sometimes cruel....The sea that dragged you down to its depths. Drowned....Found drowned....Drowned at sea....Drowned - drowned - drowned....No, she wouldn't remember....She would not think of it! All of that was over....Vera, p.32
- Mrs.Rogers had a flat monotonous voice. Vera looked at her curiously. What a white cloodless ghost of a woman! Very respectable looking, with her hair dragged back from her face and her black dress. Queer eyes that shifted the whole time from place to place. Vera thought: "She looks frightened of her own shadow." Yes, that was it - frightened! She looked like a woman who walked in mortal fear...A little shiver passed down Vera's back. What on earth was the woman afraid of? Vera and Mrs.Rogers, p.29
Chapter 2 was very suspenseful. There were parts that made me want to keep on reading, and some parts were rather creepy while I was reading late at night. The first example of suspense that I found was the meeting between Vera and Mrs. Rogers. The author wrote, "Mrs.Rogers had a flat monotonous voice. Vera looked at her curiously. What a white cloodless ghost of a woman! Very respectable looking, with her hair dragged back from her face and her black dress. Queer eyes that shifted the whole time from place to place. Vera thought: 'She looks frightened of her own shadow.' Yes, that was it - frightened! She looked like a woman who walked in mortal fear...A little shiver passed down Vera's back. What on earth was the woman afraid of?" This quote showed suspense because it made me shiver along with Vera. I wanted to continue reading to find out what exactly Mrs.Rogers was scared. Three pages later, I found another example of suspense. Vera was looking out the window when some memories came back to her--memories she did not want to remember. "The sea....So peaceful to-day - sometimes cruel....The sea that dragged you down to its depths. Drowned....Found drowned....Drowned at sea....Drowned - drowned - drowned....No, she wouldn't remember....She would not think of it! All of that was over...." I knew that this was another piece to Vera's puzzle. It fit right next to this quote from Chapter 1: "A picture rose clearly before her mind. Cyril's head, bobbing up and down, swimming to the rock...Up and down - up and down....And herself, swimming in easy practised strokes after him - cleaving her way through the water but knowing, only to surely, that she wouldn't be in time....The sea - its deep warm blue - mornings spent lying out on the sands - Hugo - Hugo who had said he loved her...." I'm guessing that Cyril drowned. Still, this did not tell the entire story. I wanted to continue to read and to find out who Hugo was and what put her into the position she was in with Cyril. That's why it was suspenseful. Next, I found yet another example of suspense, this time dealing with Tony. He was sitting in the bathtub, thinking about something...."He thought to himself: 'Must go through with it, I suppose,' and thereafter dismissed everything from his mind. Warm steaming water - tired limbs - presently a shave - a cocktail - dinner. And after - ?" The question mark made me wonder what exactly he would do. The suspensefulness made me want to read even further. The last example of suspense I found was on the same page. Mr. Blore, aka Davis, was also in his room. "Nobody had been exactly cordial to him...Funny the way they eyed each other - as though they knew....." What?????? It showed suspense because it made me want to continue reading to figure out what his dirty little secret was.
November 30, 2009
Assignment #1~
Before reading Chapter One, consider the following~
1. How does a mystery differ from a narrative?
2. How might the title be a clue to the story?
1. A mystery novel can differ from a narrative in several ways. A narrative could have an internal conflict and external conflicts. A mystery's main conflict is usually external, although it could have additional conflicts that are internal or external. Also, a mystery is typically a series of clues with red herrings interspersed between with lots of suspense, often making it hard to put down. A narrative can have a variety of plot lines.
2. The title reminds me of the five little monkey poems we were doing in our poetry unit, the ones where we would have certain numbers of animals from 10 down to 1. Mine was called 10 little children. The last line read:
One little child having fun
She got bored, and then there were none
The last part is the title of the book. Another similarity is that And Then There Were None was previously published as Ten Little Indians, similar to that poem. Because of this, I think that the story is going to be about ten Indians who will be killed off one by one.
Good explanation and characteristics of a mystery novel. Can a narrative only be written in first person? Could a mystery novel be written in first person? Conflicts take on many forms; often times a novel - whether it be narrative or mystery - have different kinds of conflicts going on at the same time.
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